As promised Caleb showed back up the next day. “Did you miss me,” He said as he strutted through the door? “How could I miss someone as awful as you,” I vented hotly. He continued as if he hadn’t heard a word I had said. “Anyway, my dear, I can’t stay long I have to help your family search for you,” Caleb chuckled. “They’re searching for me? That means they will find me and you will be arrested for kidnapping me,” I said, choking back tears. “Oh no my dear, they will not find you. You see, you are in another state and in a remote part of a forest. So you see no one is coming to rescue you, so just accept your fate,”
“Never! Someone will find me,” I yell at him as he heads for the door. I still refuse to cry in front of him. I can’t let him know that he is slowly breaking me down slowly.
Caleb is right on one hand though nobody will find me all the way out here so I need to figure out how to get myself out of here. I start looking all around me to see if there is anything I can use to remove this
shackle from my ankle. “I wish I knew how to pick the lock on this thing,” I tell myself as I see some shards of metal. Finally, I see a hammer that Caleb must have forgotten about as he put this thing into the ground. I stretch as far as I can to grab it. Then start hammering on one of the shackles links.
When I woke up the next morning I could barely move my hands because they are so sore plus I have splinters. As I inspect the link I had been hammering on I notice that I have barely made a dent in it. As I start hammering on the link again Caleb walks through the door. “Trying to save yourself,” He snarls as he grabs the hammer from my hand. “I told you that you weren’t going anywhere, you are mine now,” With those final words he rips my clothes off and proceeds to rape me for what seems like hours. I drift off into my safe place until he finishes. “No wonder Noah is looking for you so diginately you are so good and tight,” Caleb taunted. The way he said those words made me sick to my stomach. “You're in luck too. I’m going to stay here all night with you. I told Lacy that I had a business trip to go on but that I’ll be back tomorrow,” I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore. I knew what those words meant, they meant that he was going to be raping me all night long. He got what he wanted. He had broken down my barriers. Caleb just stood above me laughing.
I was right; he raped me all night and into the morning. I had to beg for him to stop just so I could have a drink and use the restroom. Little did I know
the worst part was yet to come.
Months go by and still, nobody has found me. Little did I know that Noah had gotten suspicious of Caleb because he had been leaving work early plus taken off days at a time for supposed business trips that they don’t do. To put it bluntly, Caleb grows careless. So Noah decided to start following Caleb wherever he went. Unfortunately, Noah wasn’t that good at tailing people and Caleb knew Noah was following him so he led him to me. “Oh Hannah I thought you were dead,” Noah exclaimed as he tried to get me free. “Now Noah I’m not that mean to women,” Caleb said menacingly. “Besides, I couldn’t hurt a hair on her pretty little head, hair in other places I definitely could,”
“You asshole let Hannah go,” Noah yelled as he flung himself at Caleb and they both went down to the ground. Unfortunately, Noah didn’t have a chance when Caleb shot him in the chest as he was trying to get up off the floor. So now I have nothing or no one to live for my world is dead and gone. I am Caleb’s prisoner. His sex slave as he prefers to call me. He didn’t even bother to bury Noah’s body; he just threw him into the pond. Caleb didn’t have to say anything. I heard the loud splash of my loved one’s body hitting the water. “You know everyone thinks that Noah just moved away so they’re not searching for him since they believe you are dead,” Caleb explains. “I don’t believe you, someone has to know that you killed him,” I cry. I still have some hope of being found in the back depths of my mind.
It’s actually the only thing that is keeping me sane.
As the months dragged on any hope of being saved has all but diminished. Caleb is right everyone probably thinks I’m dead or I ran off. “Well, my dear, I’m all yours I am officially divorced from Lacy,” Caleb advised me as he sauntered in one morning. “Well aren’t I a lucky lady,” I exclaimed happily. I wasn’t lying, I actually meant what I had told him. After being with him for so long I had actually fallen in love with this psychopath. I guess the psychological term for what I have is Stockholm Syndrome; it is when hostages bond with their abusers. Why should I care anyway, everything that I have ever loved is gone. So why should I not just live the life I’ve been handed, or should I say thrown into. Caleb has been really good to me since he kidnapped me. And now since he and Lacy are divorced, I get him all to myself.
Caleb and I end up moving out of the crap hole he has had me living in and into a beautiful house not far from the town where I had once lived with Noah. He did make sure I changed my hair color and he got me some contacts, plus I had lost a lot of weight so I don’t look the same as I had when I was last seen almost six months ago. I’m even going by a different name. My name isn’t Hanna anymore. I go by Skyler now. As far as anyone in our little town knows Caleb is my husband. Granted, he doesn’t go by Caleb anymore his name he goes by now is Grant.
We go about our daily lives as if we are just a happy newly married couple. Unfortunately, what people
saw on the outside wasn’t how things were on the inside. When we were behind closed doors Caleb still treated me like I was that girl he had kidnapped years ago. He was still raping me, beating me. He had even put shackles on me again long enough where I can go from the living room, kitchen, and the bathroom. I wasn’t allowed to leave the house without him. Caleb even made sure that when I would go out I was completely covered up to where I had no skin showing. All my clothes had to be baggy. If they were tight he would say that I was trying to attract attention and he wasn’t going to have that.
It didn’t matter that I was in love with him, he still didn’t believe me or anything I said. It was as if a switch had flipped in his head when we moved into our new house. It’s as if he is super paranoid that someone would recognize who I am. Hell, when I look into a full mirror, I don’t even see the old me so I don’t understand how he could think someone else would.
Noah’s friends didn’t believe that he just up and left without telling anyone nor did his family. They all met up at our old house in Herber Springs so they can figure out if Noah actually moved if not what to do next. His parents had a key so they entered the house first and looked around. They noticed that all of his personal items plus all of mine were still in the house. Caleb’s parents somberly stepped out onto the porch. ``Noah didn’t move all of the things he would have taken are still in there. We need to call the police and get them over here,” Ms. Hastings told us as her husband is already on the phone with the police. “They’re on the way over,” Mr. Hastings advised us.When the police finally show up one of the officers stays outside and questions all our friends while the other officer goes inside the house with Noah’s parents. One of Noah’s friends tells the officer that the last time he had heard from Noah was the day before he had disappeared and told the Officer that
I make sure Caleb is gone when I wake up the next morning before making a call to the Herber Springs police department to let them know where Noah’s body was. Not only that, but I also told them who I was and where Caleb was holding me hostage. I had realized that night I couldn’t save my baby, but I could save myself. Caleb was the reason I had lost my child, not mine. I had tried to get him to take me to see a doctor multiple times and he wouldn’t. “Okay Hanna I need to know where you are at,” Detective Lancaster asked me. “I believe I’m in the next town over I’m just not sure what the address is,” “It’s okay, we can trace this phone number and figure out where you are but you need to stay on the phone until we get the location. Can you do that?”“Yes,”I hear him telling the other officers what he needed them to do. “I promise Hanna we will find you and get you out of there,” He promises me. Then he starts talking to me getting all the information about what happened to me and w
I was in the hospital for almost two weeks until Dr. Drevits said that the infection was gone and I was cleared to go home. Only I didn’t have a home and my drug-running husband who had let his brother kidnap me was still running free. So guess where I got to stay? Yep, a so-called safe house. All it was was a room at a hotel granted it was a suite in a fancy-ish hotel. I of course got the bedroom, but the officers guarding me had to fight over who got the cot or the couch. They also had an officer posing as a front desk clerk so they could watch who came in and left. The only bad thing about this place is that I wasn’t allowed to leave, of course, or order room service. I’m dying for a juicy cheeseburger. I have to ask them like a little kid if I can have this nice juicy cheeseburger. But on to other things I’m still having nightmares. Dr. Drevits thinks I should see a psychiatrist. He believes that will help me with the nightmares. Detective Lancaster thinks that they are getting c
Movie night with some friends from my Law class. We are off to watch the new Conjuring movies. I have always loved scary movies Noah never did so I could only watch them when he was gone. My security detail is sitting a couple of rows behind us and looks like they are on a date. “I have seen all of the Conjuring movies. The creepiest character for me is the nun. What is yours,” I asked my friends Melanie and Allie. “Oh my god definitely the nun,” Melanie whispers as the movie is about to start. Allie leans over and whispers “Definitely the nun hands down,” We went from screaming to laughing as one of us jumps at a suspenseful part. After the movie ended, we decided to go next door to Ollie's bar for a drink and do our own review of the movie about what parts we liked, which parts were stupid, and which parts scared us the most then post them on our mutual Twitter page. My two friends do know about me being in witness protection after the FBI did a vigorous background search on them a
“So where are we exactly, I mean this isn’t a normal safe house,” I asked Liam the next morning as I was making breakfast like I always do in the morning. “I figured that Allie would have told you last night, you are at my parent’s house,” He confessed after a deep breath. I raised my eyebrows “No we’re not, you wouldn’t take me to the house that you were raised in,” I said incredulously. “Well I hate to prove you wrong yet again but yes it is,” He admitted pointing to a picture sitting on the mantle. I hand him the spatula that I had in my hand as I walk over to the picture. There standing in front of this fireplace were two proud parents with their young college graduate holding his diploma standing in between them. “Yea I took that picture I tried to get my brother to smile but all he did was a smirk,” Allie laughed as she came out of her bedroom. “I think he was a little hungover from partying the night before,”“Hey no I wasn’t I just felt a little tired standing there after mom
It takes me three cups of coffee for me to feel halfway human. When I can finally move my head side to side and back and forth without it feeling like it’s going to fall off my body I go and take a shower hoping that it will help me sober up some more.Thank goodness I don’t have to go back to school or work until tomorrow so I can just lounge around the house and relax plus start to feel better after my loving, crazy friends got me drunk just to pierce my ears. After my shower, I head to the kitchen not for my normal coffee but for a nice cup of herbal tea then head back up to my room and I slide back into my nice comfy bed where I plan to stay all day. Thanks to my new buddy Liam I don’t get that chance. “Come on, beauty queen, get up we have work to do,” He says, opening up the curtains letting the sunshine in as he tries to get me out of bed. I flipped him a double bird and pulled the covers over my head. Liam bends down, grabs my ankles, and pulls me out from under the covers. “
If nobody ever told you that if you want to keep the guy you're messing around with a secret from your friends, never give them a key to your house.Allie and Melanie showed up around seven this morning wanting to know all that had happened after we left the restaurant. They decided to wake me up by storming into my room and jumping on me in bed. When they opened my bedroom door ready to pounce they saw Liam and me snuggled up together. “Oh my god,” Allie freaked out. “Did you guys actually hook up last night,” I sat up in bed, pulling the blanket up to my neck? “Allie let me explain please,” I said, trying to find the right words to explain what happened. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m tickled,” Allie interrupted. “It’s just is this the actual reason you didn’t want us to come over last night,”“No sis, I promise this wasn’t planned at all, Noah was sitting outside the house in a white Tahoe and I didn’t want him to catch you two coming into the house,” Liam chimed in sitting up in bed ma
I went about my usual routine early this morning. Not giving off any clues about what I had planned later. I know that Noah will be following me when I head to work. I'm going to purposely drop a note for him with a time to meet me before I have my first class. It’s not the smartest decision I’ve made but I need to get Melanie back from him. I’ll exchange myself for her release if I have to. I’m praying that Liam will figure out what I have done after Melanie and I are safe from Noah and the cartel.After my shift at the Mean Bean coffee shop, I start walking to the University when someone grabs my arm. Noah. He had been watching when I purposely dropped the note for him. “So you said you wanted to talk, but first where’s your boyfriend at,” He said. As he scans the area. “I don’t know where he is, but what I want to talk about is getting Melanie back,”“I’m sorry who are you talking about,”“My friend Melanie, the one your people took on her way to work one day,” I hissed.“Oh that